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"But I was faithful for as long as it took. Until he was memory"

"So I could stand that evening in the field"

"Then notice the village men running towards me, shouting"

"behind them women and children, barking dogs"

"...and I knew. I knew by the shrill light on the blacksmith's face, the sly eyes of the barmaid"

"the sudden hands bearing me into the hot tang of the crowd parting before me"

"He lived"

"I saw the horror on his face"

"I breathed his stench; my bridegroom in his rotting shroud, moist and dishevelled"

"from the grave's slack chew"